Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-11
ions. A gentleman of this city has just

tions. A gentleman of this city has just
 gone through such an experience, and now
 he vows he will let his hair grow long and
 look like Arizona Joe if necessary, but he
 will not be taken for some other fellow again
 or have anyone taken for him. A short time
 ago clergyman who had been only a short
 time in the city was soliciting subscriptions
 for the purpose of making certain repairs
 upon the church he was connected with He
 met with much success, and finally remem-
 bered that he had not yet interviewed one of
 his most earnest disciples. A few days later
 he met, or thought he met, this gentleman
 on the street, and determined to ask him fer
 subscription. After the usual salutations
 the clergyman said: My dear sir, several
 of our friends have advised me to apply to
 you for aid in our noble work, and MT. -
 Calling him by the name of the other mem
 Der of the church who resenbled him), they
 think you will give us one hundred dollars. "
 The gentleman, who is something of hu-
 morist, saw chance to play 8 joke on his
 friend, and he replied: Certainly With
 pleasure; you can put my name down for
 one hundred dollars"
 A few days passed and the clergyman
 thought he would call upon his generous
 member and collect the money. He accor-
 dingly went to the office of the man whose
 name he had on his list and found him in.
 Good day, MT. - said the clergyman;
 ''I was going by, so I thought I would stop
 in and get the money you 50 kindly sub
 soribed." 'Money! What moneya asked
 the astonished merchant. "Why, the one
 hundred dollars you put your name down for
 last Thursday" For few seconds the mer-
 chant hesitated, but he remembered to his shame that for several days he had been on something of "spree," from which he had just recovered. He at once concluded that while under the influence of Bacchus he must have put down his name for the amount and forgotten all about it. Rather than con- fess his weakness before his pastor he pulled out his check-book, filled out blank for one hundred dollars and paid it over to the un- suspecting divine. The perpetrator of the l joke heard of the affair few days later and ! thought it was too good to keep, so he told few friends and it was not long before it reached the ears of the real subscriber. Whenever the two friends meet now the man who paid says to the man who put up the | job: "Say, it's good joke, but think you ought to give me fifty dollars and divide the | expense" The expense has not yet been di- vided, the church is one hundred dollars | richer and the clergyman does not know the | true inwardness of how he got his money. What Some Writers Earn.
 I may be unloosing secret, writes Julian Ralph from New York, but it is none the | less fact that the prince of our novelists, William D. Howell, is paid only ten thousand dollars year by Harper 6 Bros, and he is considered fortunate to get that sum, though 1 in order to do so he had to surrender all chance of earning extra money by means of contract in which he agrees to give all his gifted creations to that firm. And Rev. Ed 1 ward P. Roe, petted fayorite ot the middle class of novel consumers, the man who is supposed to press one of his Metaphorical heels on the neck of the reading community, does not earn penny more than ten thou sand dollars year, and did not more than begin to make that much until his publishers tried the experiment of printing Barriers Burned Away in twenty-cent form in 8 limited edition of one hundred thousand volumes. I say 'limited" because they de- stroyed the plates when that number was printed to force the public to buy the higher priced edition of old tat 8 dollar book I 1 believe) in case it wanted more after the l twenty-cent books were sold. This was fol- | lowed by the same experiments with "He Fell in Love With His Wife" Both suc- ceeded perfectly, and now Dominic Roe makes ten thousand dollars year. But Old | Sleuth, who is said to want to alter his cir l cle of readers at the expense of his income. | makes fifteen thousand dollars.
 l Who else does as well as that with his penl What novelist makes it9 Julian Hawthorne, ! now that he is writing the thrilling and mys- | tic experiences of the detective forcel No, for he has to divide his share with two oth- CTS, collaborateurs with him in the attractive ! task. Not only must the inspector be re | compensed for the trouble of writing down | an outline of each story, but MT. Hawthorne is understood to have au assistant, an Eng fish writer of skill, though not of fame, to | ha1n him whiD the realities into romance MT. Mayo w. Hazeltine, Amos J. Cum mings, Colonel Crockett and George Alfred Townsend are credited with earning ten thou sand dollars year, which is also the salary of more than one ot the metropolitan edi- tors -in-chief